High Definition

When we moved into the flat, the landlord kindly supplied us with a 20” CRT television with a connection to the analogue signal in Wellington, together with a VCR. That’s a Video Cassette Recorder – remember them? Now, the analogue signal in Wellington isn’t great due to the hilliness, and deteriorates even further during bad weather, so I looked around for upgrading this equipment. Turns out that the flat has both a Sky dish and a UHF aerial attached, so it was a question of deciding whether we wanted to go the whole hog and get Sky, or whether the Freeview digital service would suffice.

Well, we didn’t move to New Zealand to watch television, and as we’re not really into watching televised sport, the Sky option seemed superfluous to our needs. Yesterday we had delivered a new flat-screen, full-HD, 100Hz Freeview TV. It’s lovely! So now we can watch Shortland Street http://tvnz.co.nz/shortland-street in high definition…not that we watch Shortland Street, of course.